Re: Problem Observed in behavior of Create Index Concurrently and Hot Update

On 2012-11-27 12:50:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I vote for introducing wrapper functions/macro to do the
> > about-to-be-dropped check, its hard enough to understand as-is.
>
> Meh.  If it's only going to be done in RelationGetIndexList, I'm
> not sure that a wrapper macro is worth the trouble.  If we needed
> the test in multiple places I'd agree, but what other spots do you
> see?

I don't really see any other querying locations - but such a macro would
make the code easier backpatchable when we introduce a third column for
the about-to-be-dropped case.

Anyway, don't feel all too strongly about it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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